In addition to TuneWiki’s primary visual lyrics experience is a secondary social one. TuneWiki displays music maps on which other TuneWiki users are plotted. You’ll be able to see who in close proximity is playing which song, or where in the world others are playing the same song as you. Clicking an individual’s name can pull up the YouTube video of the song they’re rocking so you can watch along, or can show the song’s real-time influence on the globe.

While TuneWikie’s lyrics database especially enriches the basic Windows Media Player experience, it harbors some flaws. Some tools aren’t immediately intuitive, like the resyncing process, and the fact that only TuneWiki-approved editors can edit existing lyrics. A text notice on the editor-only area would wipe away potential confusion and frustration. Also, we’d like the size of the YouTube video to be adjustable. If the YouTube video stops, as it did once during testing, we want to refresh it without closing and reopening the app. When searching for songs, we’d like a more elegant display of the artist and album information returned in the results.

TuneWiki’s plug-in is good enough to use now–the lyrics and music maps adding utility and interest–but will benefit from a few more development iterations.